Human sacrifice was the norm in Pre-columbian civilizations, although Latin Americans refuse to talk about it and many are in deep denial that it happened. It went on for centuries, and only ended with the Spanish (not that the Spanish didn't do their fair share of slaughter when they arrived, but it was not ritual slaughter to ensure that the sun came up each day.) Read up on the Aztecs and other meso-American cultures. Check out the Temple of Skulls at Chichen Itza (Maya) or the sacrifical knives at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City (Aztec) or the wall painting of the torture and killing of defeated enemies at Bonampak (Maya again). Or read up on the children who were buried alive by Incas for sacrifical purposes. This is the mindset that Morales brings to government, make no mistake. Whipping would be the least of it.
Burying a child alive for political gain - sound like a democrat.
The Aztecs were sacrificing so many victims each day that they had channels built along the edge of the pyramids for all the blood to flow. At their peak they were killing hundreds a day. Not just "killing" - they would plunge a knife into the victims chest and pull out the still-beating heart and throw it on a charcoal burner.
Noble Savage, indeed.